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To achieve a more perfect fidelity to it, I submit, is a worthy ambition as we meet together in these first days of this, the first session of the 85th Congress. State of the Union Address Dwight D. Eisenhower January 9, 1958 Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the 85th Congress: It is again my high privilege to extend personal greetings to the members of the 85th Congress.
In this pursuit we have defended against Communist aggression in Korea under President Truman in the Formosa Straits under President Eisenhower in Cuba under President Kennedy and again in Vietnam. Tonight Vietnam must hold the center of our attention, but across the world problems and opportunities crowd in on the American Nation.
Lieutenant General Carl D. Spaatz will command the entire American strategic bombing force operating against Germany. General Eisenhower gives up his command in the Mediterranean to a British officer whose name is being announced by Mr. Churchill.
On the one hand, Eisenhower and the Republicans had condemned the increasing centralization of power in the federal government. On the other hand, Eisenhower had been a general who had been accustomed to having his subordinates carry out his orders. Eisenhower, the general, moved with decisiveness and sent troops into Little Rock to enforce the law.
State of the Union Address Dwight D. Eisenhower January 5, 1956 To the Congress of the United States: The opening of this new year must arouse in us all grateful thanks to a kind Providence whose protection has been ever present and whose bounty has been manifold and abundant.
Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Boston, New York City, Hollywood, Miami Beach, United States, England, France, Italy, Israel, Africa, Russia, China, India and South America. The response and image keep changing, don't they?
Mankind then will see more clearly than ever that the future belongs, not to the concept of the regimented atheistic state, but to the people the God-fearing, peace-loving people of all the world. State of the Union Address Dwight D. Eisenhower January 9, 1959 Mr. President, Mr.
McKnight Guards, Captain Nathan M. Eisenhower, 95 men, Company I, 11th Regiment; September 15. Liberty Fire Zouaves, Captain William Geiger, 70 men, Company G, 20th Regiment; September 17. M'Lean Guards, Captain Samuel Harner, 45 men, Company H, 20th Regiment; September 17. Halleck Infantry, Captain Frederick S. Boas, 92 men, Company I, 20th Regiment; September 17.
President Eisenhower was raised in a poor but religious home in the heart of America. His simple words echoed President Lincoln's eloquent testament that "right makes might." And Lincoln in turn evoked the silent image of George Washington kneeling in prayer at Valley Forge. So, all these magic memories which link eight generations of Americans are summed up in the inscription just above me.
From General Eisenhower and his associates, I have had friendly and understanding collaboration in this endeavor. I have not sought to thrust upon him nor has he sought to take the responsibility which must be mine until twelve o'clock noon on January twentieth.
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